NEW EDUCATION POLICY

Ashoka University and Connecticut College, USA sign MoU for student exchange and research on COVID-19 impact

The collaboration between the two institutions will enable bilateral student exchange of undergraduate students between the two campus for ...

15th FC calls for tech education in regional languages

The report observes that the pandemic has clearly brought to the fore ‘the issue of access and the rural-urban divide in higher education’ ...

Budget 2021: 6% cut in allocation for education sector

The Centre has slashed allocation for education by about 6%, even as it announced development of 15,000 ‘Adarsh Vidyalayas’ (model schools)...

Education Budget 2021-22: Education gets Rs 93,224 cr, Rs 8100 cr more than revised estimates

The allocation for the education ministry has been cut to Rs 93,223 crore from Rs 99,311 crore for the current financial year, as per the b...

Budget: Over 15k schools to be strengthened as per new NEP, 100 new Sainik Schools to be set up

Making board exams easy, reduction of curriculum to core concepts, replacement of 10+2 structure of school curricula with a 5+3+3+4 structu...

E-education, if well utilised, can reduce inequalities in educational outcomes: Eco Survey

Quoting the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2020 Wave-1 (Rural), the Survey pointed out that the percentage of enrolled children f...

Govt proposes to set up University of Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Sciences

In a public notice issued on December 24, the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), under the Ministry of Social ...

Common test for admission to central universities from 2021

In a move intended to end the tyranny of cut-off marks based on Class XII Board exams for college admissions, the government has set up a s...

Blended learning will become the new normal: Ramesh Pokhriyal, Union Education Minister

The Unlock 5 guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (on September 30) gave the flexibility to state and UT governments to take a...

New school of thought: For India's educational institutions, a blended model may be the only answer

It is a Covid-time innovation but the hybrid mode of education, a mix of online and offline, could be here to stay. The course and effects ...

New education system aims to create equitable society: Dr K Kasturirangan

Dr Kasturirangan said the NEP provides an integrated yet flexible approach towards education and emphasis is given in the policy to the asp...

Education Minister asks school leaders to make efforts for effective implementation of NEP

"I urge school leaders to make rigorous efforts for the effective implementation of New Education Policy, 2020 which has been prepared taki...

Government analysing student data to offer language flexibility in education

While it is clear that the largest proportion of students who applied and appeared in the JEE Main were from the English medium, those who ...

National Education Policy to transform India into knowledge superpower: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

The NEP, unveiled by the Centre amid the COVID-19 crisis in July, will pave the way for holistic and multidisciplinary education, Pokhriyal...

New Education Policy meant to develop self-confidence: PM

In his address through video conference, the prime minister also took an indirect dig at the previous governments, finding fault with the f...

View: How best to improve outcomes under the New Education Policy

Millions of parents and educators around the country have deep rooted and extremely outdated mental models of what education should be.

Board exams to happen for sure, schedule to be announced soon, says CBSE Secretary

The comments by board secretary Anurag Tripathi come amid demands from various quarters for cancellation or postponement of board exams in ...